Dieting From Home

Cons Possible headaches - remember, drink very large  quantities of water.  Moseley states that you should "urinate 6-7 times per day" as a result of your water consumption.  I found that if I didn't drink to that quantity, headaches were likely - and that I saw the skin of my fingers start wrinkling and I would use that as a cue to drink more.  I took to drinking sparkling water - it's become an expense! Mild mental effects - probably due to ketosis . If you check " Adverse effects " there you'll see there aren't many.  Specifically, what I've found is some sense  of dizzyness - or something like it - but without an actual  loss of coordination or balance.  And again a sense  of confusion - without actually losing my train of thought or misunderstanding anything (I've been able to work effectively throughout).  Occasionally I've felt light-headed after getting up quickly - low blood sugar? Overall, these "negative" effects ar

Early on in this diet as I was experimenting with different foods, I took the lead from the Fast 800 book.  The recipes quite reasonably are for low-calorie attempts to duplicate pre-diet meals.  Typically, there'll be a trace of high calorie foods.  I tried putting together similar meals myself, until I realised just how high in energy some foods were.  Cheese - especially hard mature cheeses - are often over 400 kcals per 100g.  But they're very flavoursome so I tended to add a little to many meals.  I entirely dispensed with butter.  I would occasionally add nuts - but with energies approaching 700 kcal/100g I could throw in only a few! But the biggest shock that I avoided entirely, even though it contributes so well to salads, taste-wise: oil.  At nearly 900 kcal/100g olive oil had to be rejected entierly.  Better to add greater quantities of meat or cheese. But, the astoundingly high energy oil contains gave me an idea.   In theory, I could sustain myself at my restricted

The following photos represent 1 recent week of meals.   No other intake of energy besides these meals was consumed.  The total energy intake was 4900 kilocalories, that being 700 kilocalories per day.  Therefore each of the meals shown was about 350 kcal.